Amy Wrzesniewski

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose that employees craft their jobs by changing cognitive, task, and/or relational boundaries to shape interactions and relationships with others at work, which, in turn, alters work meanings and work identity.

TL;DR: The meaning of work literature is the product of a long tradition of rich inquiry spanning many disciplines as discussed by the authors, and the field lacks overarching structures that would facilitate greater integration, consistency, and understanding of this body of research.

TL;DR: The authors found evidence that most people see their work as either a job (focus on financial rewards and necessity rather than pleasure or fulfillment; not a major positive part of life), a career, or a calling, while enjoying the enjoyment of fulfilling, socially useful work.

TL;DR: In this paper, a qualitative study of 33 employees in for-profit and non-profit organizations to elaborate theory on job crafting was conducted, focusing on how employees at different ranks describe perceiving and adapting to challenges in the execution of job crafting and their responses to them details the adaptive action that may be necessary for job crafting to occur.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a model of interpersonal sensemaking and describe how this process contributes to the meaning that employees make of their work, and present examples from organizational research to illustrate this process.